THE ORDER OF THE ESSENES

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OF INSTRUCTION

AS AN EARNEST
SEEKER AFTER TRUTH,

WE ASSURE YOU:-
Packed in twenty small pages of Instruction Seven accompanying this letter
is mental nourishment, which if thoroughly digested, will help greatly your
grasp of truth'* To comprehend it is quite necessary in the understanding
of what is to follow*

We teach, and you will learn, that your life is not infinitestimal, hut in­
finite.

There seems to he some key word or key suggestion that creates the spark of
understanding -- some get it from one suggestion - others from another*

Perhaps you will find your word or suggestion in this set of instructions.

Won’t you please give it careful consideration, uninterrupted study, and try
to get the essence of it?

As you progress in this study we know you feel grateful to those who have
contributed and do contribute that these instructions may be available to
you, and that feeling released into the universal is effective in their
lives, as you will come to know.
If you are one who is helping in a large way or a small way to extend the
horizon of understanding of others you will experience a glow of satisfaction,
that you are a part in this work - and the gratitude and appreciation of the
recipient does reach back to you.

One of the most beautiful stories, and a “best seller” is Lloyd Douglas1
book, the "Magnificient Obsession”, based upon this law. It will be found
in your public library.

There is no higher form of giving, than to give that which enables the
recipient to do for himself.

We try earnestly to select the worthy to receive these Instructions, and we

sincerely hope that you show your appreciation by serious application, and
confirm our judgement of you by demonstrating that from understanding flows
peace and harmony, health and radiant living, and material welfare.

Thereby you set the law in motion and are a credit to,

THE ORDER OF THE ESSENES

Enc. 7
THE Essenes
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Instruction 7 HEALTH, HAPPINESS AND SUCCESS.

“He can, who thinks he can,” Re­

peat this! Do it again and again!
When you realize the eternal truth
you thus express, something with­
in you will stir you to go forward,
and at the same time by natural
law, there will be added unto you
something which will enable you
to carry through to success.
Circumstances may appear to be
against you, but it remains true
“He can, who thinks he can”—>
so hold your thinking true to the
charted course.
 THOUGHT GEMS

The family tree is worth talking about, if it ho* constantly

produced good timber, ond not just nuts.

An obstinate man does not hold opinions—opinions hold

him.

The shodow disappears when the real thing which casts It

Is removed.

What need for all this strained out-reaching for an un­

known and unknowable, when it is within you.

We have come to the point where it must not be a seeking

of o creed to follow, but it must be the living of a life.

Every right thought we think, every unselfish word or

action, is bound by immutable laws to be fraught with good
results. We must leam to lose sight of results, quit thinking
in terms of effects and center upon cause—and let results or
effects be, as they will, a natural outcoming.

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Nature's stream of plenty will not flow toward limiting,
doubting, pinching, stingy, selfish, jealous thoughts.

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We think little things—we ask little things wo expect
little things—we get little things. We suffer from stinginess
of ideas, parsimonious mental processes, pinch-penny thinking,
congested causation, supply limitation, low rating and setf-
wrecking by mental atrophy.
 One Source?
We ore going to hove much to say about "life
principle." From nature we can learn much that
will give us an understanding of the YOU.
The orange, the grapefruit, the lemon, the lime,
the tangerine are all of the citrus family. There
are many verities of each of these fruits. Each has
its characteristics.
You can take a bud from the branches of any
one of these trees and insert it into the limb of any
tree of this family, so that the bud will be fed and
nourished by the sap of that branch, and it will
grow and from the branches that grow from that
bud you will have the fruit the same as the tree
from which the bud was taken—thus it is not un­
common to see oranges, lemons, grapefruit and
tangerines all grown on the same tree.
Mark well—all draw the same nourishment
through the one trunk of the one tree into which
they are budded, all fed from the same soil—kissed
by the same sun, and waving in the same atmos­
phere—and yet each branch year in and year out
will bear the variety of fruit of the bud from which
it sprang and true to the voriety of the original tree
from which it was taken.
That bud bore a life principle. Its inherent pur­
pose was there. The bud was no larger than the
fingernail of your little finger. If a Valencia orange
is inserted in a rough lemon root stock or tree Va­
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lencia oranges will forever be its crop. In these

orange branches may be inserted a grapefruit bud,
and the branches that spring from that bud will
bear grapefruit. Thus you would have grapefruit
growing from branches, drawing nourishment
through branches bearing Valencia oranges, which
in turn are getting life sustenance through rough
lemon stock.
Again, in turn, you could bud a lime into these
grapefruit bearing branches, and from that bud
would spring branches bearing limes.
The life principle of the bud will not be de­
feated.
Could not that lime bearing branch,-—upon a
grapefruit branch, upon an orange branch, upon a
lemon branch say—"I and my father are one?"
All of the qualities and inherent properties of
the tree from which the lime bud was taken are in
that lime branch—Its fruit, the lime.
If you—the real you—are taken from the uni­
versal, an omnipotent, an omniscient, an omnipres­
ent life principle, can you not say "I and my father
are one?"
Are you to be hard to convince, and is it impos­
sible for you to comprehend that all of the qualities
and inherent properties of the universal from which
you sprang, you possess?
All other men are buds from the same stock.
You say others can do that which you cannot do.
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Of course you are a willing individual; that is,

one having the power to will. If you fail to use this
power, you cannot do what others do. But when you
will have made adequate progress in these instruc­
tions, you will then have learned that "he can who
thinks he can;" you will have learned just how to
contact, to bring forth and to utilize to the maxi­
mum your nature (Cod) given powers.
You have as much power as anyone that has
ever been on this planet, or that ever will be.
It is a fact of physiology that if you put your
hand in a sling, ana fail to use it, you soon lose the
power to use it.
Unlimited powers, faculties, qualities you have,
perhaps undreamed of. You have had them in a
sling, unused, and have lost the power of using
them.
You must now become as little children" and
learn to walk—learn to use these powers inherent
in you—step by step.
It is not difficult to grasp the possibility of a
steady and progressive extension of our senses, so
that by sight, by hearing and by other senses, we
may be able to appreciate vibrations far higher and
far lower than those we ordinarily recognize.
The highly bred bird dog, with his marvelous
nose, illustrates that it has a sense of vibration so
far as smelling is concerned, far more refined than
man.
All wild life has keen scent, keen sight, keen
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hearing and keen consciousness of vibrations that

have been lost to humans. We have submerged
these nature given faculties in.our desire for more
material things.
Likewise, we have other faculties, powers, and
qualities in a sling, so to speak,—submerged—lost.
To regain a view of these "lost" qualities, we
must journey to the mountain top, and then having
visioned them, we must contact them, and develop
them, and use them,—materialize the benefits—•
demonstrate by health, happiness, success.
We are the seed, the bud; the life principle is
there just as in a flower seed.
The ideal image of the flower in minutest detail
is within the seed, and must expand, multiply, and
unfold, and be wrought into the perfect flower by
hourly preparation.
We are shortly to get away from the dead letter
of discussion and come into contact with the living
principle, and learn how to make this seed blossom
forth in our lives, and bear fruit,
As we progress there will come upon you a
strange and ineffable consciousness of power, of
something great within,—not man power but the
power of the real you, a part of the universal power
in direct touch with infinite power.
We shall work, not by charms, but by simples.
When you begin to feel this power, you will ex­
perience an exhilaration of mind, you will get the
feel of a great desire, and you will set up a better,
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quicker circulation of blood, you will sense a warm­

th of the body, your digestion will improve, your
blood stream will undergo purification.
These things will become apparent to you—to
others—and with that change shall come a change
in circumstances.
If you seek a magic recipe for progress without
effort-—death will find you still searching.
If you had not exercised your muscles for years,
you would hardly expect to be as strong as a train­
ed athlete. Mina, like muscles, develops with exer­
cise. Our other powers must be utilized, or they too
will become weak and ineffectual.
The athlete who seeks a title or a record and to
excel in athletic sports, knows that he cannot hope
to succeed or win without preparation, without
exercise, without training.
Let us take a glimpse of his attitude of mind.
He grasps a mental picture of himself excelling,
and there is born within him a burning desire to
accomplish that mental vision. He starts with the
mental picture, born of imagination, his will and
determination are fired, and he does something
about it. He trains and exercises, he adheres to
rules or laws he knows will work, and gains strength
and progress and excels in his field of endeavor.
In that short glimpse we again get a picture of
some of the elements that go to make for success.
Do you see any similarity in that picture to the ex­
perience of the child who got the watch or the
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bicycle or the gun, we glimpsed a short time back.

If you will recall the subject upon which you
most frequently and intensely think—that to which
in your silent hours your soul most naturally turns,
you will reveal the destination of the road you are
traveling.
Your thoughts of today, yesterday, last month,
last year, and throughout the years that are past,
indicate your state of health, your position in life,
your friends, your financial condition, and all that
there is to know about you.
There is an unavoidable tendency to become
the embodiment of that quality upon which one
most constantly thinks. It is the law.
Doesn't it seem strange that with our boasted
high degree of intelligence, and our great edu­
cational institutions, that most of our individuals
have minds, unenlightened upon the inner laws of
being, upon the nature and destiny of their own
lives.
There is one thing certain—basic—and that
is life.
You will find it in plants, trees, animals, and
humans. Now science demonstrates it in minerals,
rocks, and in everything, even in what was former­
ly known as an inert protein. Life is everywhere,
beneath, within and over the earth.
The knowledge that constitutes the real power
in life, the real purpose of our being, is not common
to all. In all times and in all ages it wos limited to
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those and those only, who sought it. Perhaps the

fault lies with our educational institutions.
The grade schools, high schools, universities,
and colleges throughout this land, center all at­
tention upon the development of the mental and
physical,—the conscious objective mind, and the
blood and bone body, and barely hint at man's
inner powers and possibilities.
When you follow the traditional shackled
methods of education, you do not grasp the driving
forces, you do not contact the powers that can
make useful and profitable the mass of facts and
information years of schooling may have given you.
You may have a trained piece of machinery but
it lacks a spark plug or an exciter. It is minus the
current that makes the spark jump and set off your
machinery equipment, which you have spent years
in acquiring.
Some of the most unsuccessful men of today
are college trained, and the possessors of many de­
grees. They are pitifully dumb,—heads full of in­
formation—brains that can comprehend the most
intricate facts or processes of reasoning,—memo­
ries that make them almost human encyclopedias,
but woefully lacking in the ability to fit that accu­
mulation of years to anything useful and to make
it of service to themselves or mankind.
The time spent on one book, if devoted to a
study of their own powers and faculties, would
make them successful if that study is correctly
understood and intelligently applied.
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In oil the relations with the world which one has

through the ordinary senses, (hearing, seeing, etc.)
physical science has found that there is an inter­
mediate medium and forms of energy appropriate
to the sense organ involved-—thus light energy for
the eye, sound energy for the ear, chemical energy
transformations for the senses of taste ond smell.
As we have commented in these Instructions,
science has devoted itself to things mechanical ond
physical, and has scarcely touched the problem of
the simplest protoplasm, barely given consideration
to the nature of life. The physics of sensation, the
simplest element of mind is still a mystery so far as
the statement of a demonstrable physical law is
concerned.
Perhaps religion should have done something
about it; but it is just too bad that Christian ortho­
doxy, with its creeds, dogmas, and theology took
the ground that the Bible must be literally accept­
ed, and that it was an infallible record from whence
there was no appeal on any question of history,
science, philosophy or prophecy.
The main point was missed—truth.
Argument, contention, a sort of warfare was
begun and kept up for years.
Conventional religion has not succeeded in mak­
ing man conscious of his nature (God) given pow­
ers, or at least has failed to instill in him the faith
in those powers resident within each, that would
cause them to undertake, to carry on, and to
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demonstrate health, happiness, and success.

It also fails to give to the individual a clear
understanding of the real you—deeper than the
physical, deeper than the mental. It just does not
identify the "spiritual self" as something within,
something wth power for health, happiness and
success, here and now.
It is our mission to awaken humanity to a vivid
dream of lotent potentialities of powers, and to
carry conviction that such dreams are prophesies
to be fulfilled and to show a workable, tangible
method of fulfillment.
We.teach, ond you will learn that your life is
not finite but infinite-—that you possess within
yourself an eternal, active, conscious individual
force, a being, a form, which possesses an energy,
capable of drawing and Afrhich does draw to itself,
everything that is necessary for the accomplishment
of its purpose.
For the benefit of the skeptical, critical, and
purely scientific—let us here and now state that
in mental processes, a non-mechanical mode of
causation is in operation. Something peculiarly
purposive and personal is going on in the mind over
and above the laws of mechanics as we know them,
a non-mechonical physics.
An extra-sensory perception is now an establish­
ed scientific fact; in other words some people can
acquire knowledge without using any of the known
senses.
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. . . THOUGHT GEMS . . .
It is of supreme importance to think right. Our first need
is to align our thinking with principle. No one can do our
thinking for us. We must each individually work out life's
beauty of pattern, its hormony of coloring, ond its deepest
meaning.
•
Time—The most valuable and least valued commodity in
the world.
•
Deep down below the subconscious mind that the individual
uses is the universal subconscious Mind; or shall we say, to
speak more accurately, that there is but one subconscious
Mind. What we look upon as being the individual subconscious
mind is simply the limited use we make of the universal sub­
conscious Mind.

Section 2 Instruction 7
In the course of our instructions we have set
forth that modern men of science, psychologists,
and members of our order are deeply religious, not
in the sense of subscribing to creeds—dogma, and
theological tenets, nor belief in a personal Cod,
but in a deeper sense.
A modern example is Henry C. Link, director of
the psychological Service Center of New York, as
disclosed in his book entitled "The Return to Re­
ligion."
Here was a man who was raised in the Church,
attended Sunday School from the time he was four
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years old, church from the time he was six—was a

Sunday School teacher, taught Bible classes in the
Y. M. C. A. and as he says—had "extremely heavy
doses of religion," up until the age of about twenty-
five.
When he entered college he took a course in
religious education.
In his course in religious education he natural­
ly learned how the Bible had been put together
"piece-meal," how one individual after another
had rewritten certain parts and had put in his con­
ceptions and convictions of each one, some were
absolutely spurious, and other parts doubtful.
When he began to give service to others based
on psychological reseorch and understanding, he
found himself constantly using religious phrases,
such as are found throughout this course and that
there were no psychological, scientific terms that
would fit the occasions, and then he began an an­
alysis, which revealed that the findings of phychol-
ogy were really a rediscovery of old religious truths,
and why not?
There can be little doubt that Jesus was a mem­
ber of the Order of the Essenes and therein learned
the life principles, philosophy, and truths of being,
which he afterwards taught so understanding^ to
the people of that time.
There was a perfect case of a man weaned
from religion by the scientific route, and a return
by the road of science.
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He himself said this intellectual return was not

wholly acceptable to him and possibly not to others,
and that religion as taught and practiced was not
a perfect vehicle of religious truths, but at that he
often found it greater than science.
He came to a conviction that there was a divine
order in things and that religion often held values
higher than reason.
He dropped the belief that religion was the re­
fuge of the weak, and came to look upon it as the
weapon of the strong, by which the individual can
become the master of environment and not its
victim.
He began to attend church again as a matter
of self discipline, because he preferred to lie in bed
and read the papers on Sunday and for other rea­
sons of self discipline, in fact, he stated he hated
to go-—but he knew it did him good.
This book which is autobiographic in its nature,
but full of analyses of many persons, teaches the
outstanding lesson that no finding of modern psy­
chology is as important as the proven fact that the
road to self realization is by the route of self sacri­
fice.
By nature, the individual is selfish, and inclined
to follow his own impulses.
Psychologists from thousands of tests and by re­
search and psychoanalysis have proven that selfish­
ness leads to introversion, to emotional instability,
to intellectual futility, to maladjustment and to un-
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happiness, and that it requires something higher

than the individual—the conscious mind, the ordi­
nary conception of the You, to overcome the selfish
impulses of the natural man, and to lead him to
health, happiness and success. He must grasp and
hold, that he, the flesh and blood and bone indivi­
dual is one with the imperishable inner You, the
unchanged and unchangeable You, which can con­
tact the omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent cur­
rents, of which this Order teaches.
In technical psychological terms extrovert and
introvert mean degrees of selfishness.
The introvert or selfish person avoids the
trouble of meeting people, the extrovert goes out of
his way to meet them. The introvert evades the
obligations of clubs and committees, the extrovert
accepts them. The introvert has no time for the
things he dislikes to do, the latter does them any­
way. The former, afraid of making mistakes and
of embarrassing himself, risks no action. The ex­
trovert may be afraid too, but still acts, and by his
mistakes and suffering ultimately achieves skill
and confidence.
While one person hesitates because he feels in­
ferior, the other is busy making mistakes and be­
coming superior. The introvert critically analyzes
his friends and past experiences while the extrovert
is making new friends and having new experiences.
Fortunately, extroversion and introversion are
definitely habits which are largely within the indi­
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vidual's control. Some people who are decidely in­

trovert at the age of 20 or 30 still achieve extro­
version in later life by mastering some vocational
pursuit which compels them to deal with people.
Usually, however, extroversion is achieved by
developing a well balanced set of normal habits.
When the necessary habits are lacking, the human
organism is like an automobile engine racing out
of gear.
Few people suffer from an excessive expendi­
ture of their energies, but multitudes suffer from
surplus energies which remain unexpressed or are
expressed in ways that are not normal. The selfish
person is the person who hoards his energies and
suffers, finally, from their excess. The unselfish
person expends his energies lavishly in mony di­
rections, thereby leaving little surplus energy to
feed the gnawing demon of discontent.
From a psychological viewpoint, we are all born
as introverts, and as selfish individuals. We a-
chieve extroversion or unselfishness only by a con­
tinuous process of rebirth, the painful birth of new
habits and new personality traits.
Jesus Christ, the great Exponent of the un­
selfish life, was an extrovert to a degree which few
can hope to achieve. He was highly aggressive in
making social contacts.
The extrovert or unselfish character of Christ
was not an accident. It was the result of an ideal
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which He valued more highly than His personal

comfort or even His life.
In this course of instructions it is our desire to
stress the fact that the road to health, happiness
and success lies in doing things, in work,—not in
being good—negatively—but in doing good—posi­
tively.
You cannot self analyze nor merely think your­
self into happiness, health, and success. Naturally,
you cannot perform except as you think and will,
but thinking thoughts of love must be followed by
love.
Those who love are willing to serve and sacrifice
themselves for those they love.

SPECIFIC INSTRUCTIONS
Our request with this set of instructions, like
most of our requests is quite simple. To fail to ob­
serve it is just to deliberately fail in the improve­
ment of the physical you.
Now for the request. Chew more.
This rule is difficult to obey, because you are
often in a hurry, because you are so hungry that
you instinctively "gobble" or because people all
around you eat fast, and you unconsciously imitate
them. But the rewards of slow eating and thorough
chewing are so great that you can well afford al­
most any effort or sacrifice to observe them.
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(1) Thorough chewing reduces the amount of

work done by the stomach, thereby relieving you of
that after-dinner dullness, and freeing your ener­
gies. (2) It prevents overeating, because your
stomach sends up its message of "enough" before
half the usual amount has been swallowed. (3)
And third, it helps you automatically to choose the
food containing the right elements. Your stomoch
will cease to desire an excess of meat, and in fact,
will positively reject it.
More significant than any of these results is the
fact that thorough chewing increases your powers.
A most amazing demonstration of this truth was
that given by Horace Fletcher. Mr. Fletcher, at the
age of forty-four, was so much a physical wreck
that a life insurance company refused his appli­
cation. He adopted a system of thorough masti­
cation. He didn't rule flatly to chew each bit so
many times; he merely determined to keep each
bite in his mouth os long as it had ony taste left—
in other words, to enjoy it as much os he possibly
could, on easy and delightful program.
What was the result? At the oge of fifty, Mr.
Fletcher was able to ride a bicycle 150 miles in one
day, without exhaustion, or after effects. At the
age of 58, on the endurance testing mochine at
Yale University, he doubled the record set by the
college athletes. Equally startling results were ob­
tained from other subjects. Nine students were
tested on the endurance machine ond, after five
months of Mr. Fletcher's regime, were tested agoin.
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They increased their records by an average of 90

per cent and some of them by more than 100 per
cent. Chew each bite as long as it tastes good, or
until it thoroughly liquefies.

. . JUST TALKING IT OVER . . .

As you go through this course of Instructions, you will find

that you will be referred back to Instruction No. 7 to consider
Pages 3 ond 4.
The point that will be stressed is this:- If a seed or a bud
filled with a life principle will inevitably be true to that princi­
ple, and man is interpenetrated with life principles which make
for health, happiness, ond success, why does he not always
come true to the principle? The answer is, that man is capable
of willing, and self-direction, and often defeats the principle.

In considering the second section of these Instructions, we

ask that you read most carefully Pages 15 to 18; and that
hereafter you think in terms of cultivating friendships.

From a psychological standpoint, all friendship involves the

artificial process of subordinating one's own interests and inclin­
ations to those of others. People who hove acquired the art of
friendship no longer think of it as artificial—for them it is
natural to say and do things which please others.

Not only do we ask you to cultivate friendships, but prac­

tice unselfishness.

Most people who are unsuccessful and unhappy are in that

position because their daily thoughts and actions are tainted
with selfishness. Trying always to get, actually pushes away
the object sought. Gettting is an effect, a reaction; giving is
the action which is followed by the sequel of gifts to the giver;
hence giving is the cause of getting.